Get educated on HP's 'Business of Education' for Higher Ed

Success in higher education requires sustainability in a variety of areas: improving student outcomes, educational excellence to attract and retain the best faculty and strategic planning for the future. To achieve and maintain acceptable marks in these areas an institution must become proficient in what HP calls the 'Business of Education'.

We have found that many institutions are still running on a combination of legacy and new applications that are hosted on disparate proprietary networks which often cause: interoperability, visibility and security challenges. Network chaos like this makes it challenging to support contemporary learning environments such as media-rich interactive courses, distance learning, as well as essential services such as on-line administrative services and emergency notification systems.

The HP Business of Education is a cost conscience strategy that enables an institution to balance the need to offer a mobile, 24x7x365 accessible network that supports real-time, collaborative learning and back office applications, while providing all the online tools that students and faculty expect. Below are three steps of the strategy that HP has assisted Higher Education institutions in accomplishing:

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Case studies

Philadelphia University enhances reliability and performance of campus network with HP Networking. Read how cost reduction and higher productivity have generated a calculated average annual savings of $95,442, resulting in a five-year return on investment (ROI) for the HP solution of 256%.

With HP networking solutions as a cornerstone, the HP Converged Infrastructure delivers an architectural blueprint that integrates servers, storage, and networking, eliminating technology silos and freeing up resources to focus more on business innovation.

Switches

The HP 10500 is designed to set a new benchmark for performance, low-latency, reliability and future-proof scalability to enable a video-ready campus network and provide an unmatched user experience with an advanced, simplified network architecture.

5820 Switch Series Updated
The HP 5820 Switch Series are advanced switches that deliver a unique combination of unmatched 10 Gigabit Ethernet port density, high-availability architecture, and full Layer 2 and Layer 3 dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 support along with FCoE convergence capabilities.

Network Management

IMC Enterprise Software Platform
IMC Enterprise Edition provides comprehensive network management and also includes Network Traffic Analyzer and a license for the Extended APIs. It can scale to meet very large enterprise networks when deployed in a hierarchical architecture.

MSM-802.11n Dual Radio Indoor/Outdoor Access Point Series Updated
The MSM466-R Outdoor 802.11n Access Point brings 450Mb/s per radio technology to outdoor environments for outdoor coverage, point to point and point to multipoint applications either autonomously or centrally controlled by MSM Controllers.

HP Mobility Security IDS/IPS System Series Updated
Detects and prevents wireless threats with automated policy-based security and location-tracking capabilities with full support for all IEEE 802.11 WLAN networks.

Is the high volume of Wi-Fi Devices penetrating your higher education networks? — Are you ready?

Today’s faculty and administrators have more technological tools at their disposal than ever to help techâ€‘savvy students - Providing faculty and students with Wi-Fi services is no longer an option but a necessity to survive in an increasingly competitive market. A bad Wi-Fi experience can adversely impact the effectiveness of the student and the educator.

The BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) phenomenon is having a major impact on educational institutions and as a result you need to take a hard look at the following questions:

How do you plan to secure the many Wi-Fi clients entering your network?

How do you manage your wired and wireless networks?

Do you have the bandwidth, the density and security to accommodate the onslaught of Wi-Fi clients entering your network?

Innovation

Provide students and faculty with the optimum ease of network connectivity, the innovative MSM317 access device is a "multi functional" managed communication solution that provides:

Flexible communications connectivity - ideal for student dorm rooms.

A new approach to secure and manage your wired/wireless network

Simplify IT security and network device administration with core to edge wired/wireless user and device management by providing:

An open and standards-based solution.

Scalability on three dimensions—functionality, connectivity, and capacity.

Featured videos

Case studies

Philadelphia University enhances reliability and performance of campus network with HP Networking. Read how cost reduction and higher productivity have generated a calculated average annual savings of $95,442, resulting in a five-year return on investment (ROI) for the HP solution of 256%.